I don't see it as 'borking' Miers. With Bork, his legal talents were clear, the borking went after his video rentals. With Miers, the complaint is that there is no evidence of constitutional legal talent or inclination. We aren't digging for bad stuff, we are digging around trying to find the good stuff.
The President shares mine and your concerns. But he decided that it's benefits outweigh the costs.
No, he doesn't share my concerns, or he would not have seen any benefits in the CFR.
What I have seen in Bush is that he's giving the right things like tax cuts that can be quickly repealed, and given the left things that are next to impossible to change like huge increases in spending on education and medicare, and given them CFR and a huge influx of illegals. He talks a good bit about personal responsibility, but tends to have the federal government pick up more and more responsibility, as in his recent calls for more use of the military in disaster and epidemic responses.
The president isn't the final recourse, but he is a major player, if not the major player, in setting the political agenda. If he isn't on board an effort to cancel the CFR, it isn't likely to happen.
My bad, I thought Bork is just a phrase for "not allowing a justice to the Court. I didn't know it has the same connotation as McCarthyism (n. the slander of a patriot to advance a treasonous agenda).
The Pres. is a Hamiltonian or Big Guvmint conservative. He sees government as a boon, not a bane to the people. His vision is for an accountable and beneficial government. It is not arbitrary dumping of money, specific programs are designed to allow for an overall increase in choice, responsibility, and efficiency. Private accounts for SS. The new emphasis on preventative medicine as opposed to much more costly treatment in Medcare/Medcaid. Graduation tests and punitive subtraction of funding if schools fail to perform for NCLB.
Granted, this is by no means a crowd favorite and it is quite opposite of Pres. Reagan's vision. But there are definitely worse alternatives.
As in regards to tax cuts and immigration, progress is being made albeit at a very painful pace for many of us. But I'm not too concerned, you guys are pounding the phone and electronic lines for reform and everyone from the Pres. to the Congresscritters heard you guys loud and clear. They'll take care of it, they have to unless they are suicidal. Also Katrina threw a monkeywrench into everything. So, a slow process is now made glacial. But me worry? I live in a free nation. I don't expect speed. Republicanism is never an efficient affair. Paraphrasing Ol' Truman here "You want efficienycy? Try a dictatorship."
He's still got 3 years left. Let's see how things go.